Stephanie Galloway-Brown

Can you explain the journey you have taken to become a portrait artist? I came to painting later in life. I had always loved portraiture and a…


Coco Elder

You specialize in both painting and ceramics.  Discuss the combination of the two and how it works for you? The two practices provide different…


Vitor Moreira Da Costa

How have your roots to both Porto, Portugal and Porto Alegre, Brazil, influenced your art? As a Portuguese born in Brazil, my art is strongly…


Brian Davidson

Can you explain the difference between printmaking and watercolourist prints?Pambula Beach Unlike reduction Lino Printing where the lino (or other…


Kathryn Ryan

Recently you took a year off painting.  A year to relook and reseeing and refocus. What led you to do this? After 20+ years of holding solo…


Fiona Hiscock

Are all the native Australian birds on flora that is specific to the bird’s habitat?Yes, I am really particular about composing the painting so…


Cate Inglis

What draws you to paint urban landscapes? I have always had a fascination with architecture. The earliest memories I have are from when I lived in…


Eileen Braun

How did Spruill Arts help you to establish the direction you wanted your art to move to? After 2 years of concentrated encaustic wax development, I…


James Ainslie

How has the coast directly affected your painting?Into the Shadows, Acrylic on linen I was born near the coast and have spent a lot of my life…


Ann Oram

Colour is a signature of your work.  Discuss this using several of your paintings. Colour and its use is a very Scottish thing. I think we have a lot…


Paul Balmer

This is a new format for Zoneone Arts.   I would like to introduce you to Paul  Balmer using two videos and following each video with the questions…


Stephen M Redpath

Many of your watercolours are dominated by the horizon – discuss.  The horizon is a mysterious, glorious and untouchable thing and I spend a lot of…


Kit Glaisyer

Comment on how both your parents influenced your love of painting. Looking back, I can appreciate that my parents were my first painting teachers. I…


Caroline Bailey

What led you to take up painting full time? Was there something or someone who gave you the motivation? The motivation was always in me, I always…


David Edmond

You worked as a designer before starting you painting practice. Does this have any bearing on your paintings?1986 textile collection I ran my own…


Chris Motley

What led you to take knitting to another level?Helping My mother taught me to knit when I was in grade school, so I’ve been knitting for 50 years…


Carly Le Cerf

Can  you explain the different mediums you use in your work? My work would most accurately be described as mixed media. My staple materials are…


Susan Brown

You used to paint only in water colour, recently you have been working in acrylic too.  How do you find the two mediums? I had to reverse my brain…


Raudyn Alfarto

 What made you leave the world of architecture for the art  world?Let’s Gather 2018, 90 x 60cms, Acrylic on Canvas As the Italian architect Renzo…


Raymond Quenneville

Since 1992, you have narrowed your work to landscape.  Can you explain how this came to be? I started painting landscape in oil long time ago when I…


Jayne Stokes

How important is photography to your work? Photography plays an important role in the development of my work. The starting point for 90% of my pieces…


Katherine Downey Miller

How important is your environment to your past and current work? Growing up in New England, the weather and change of seasons became very important…


Belinda Wilson

Can you expand on your master’s Research, and relate the importance of art on current day issues – Climate change? The Master of Fine Art by research…


Sean Flood

Music, impacts on Sean Flood's art, depending on the rhythm or beat playing as he paints. We are aware of movement and sound in all his urban…


Jennifer Krause Chapeau

You were a finalist in the Luxembourg Art Prize, - Can you explain… about the Luxembourg Art Prize?         Yes I was one of 12 finalists selected…


Anton Thomas

Can you discuss how important research and preparation is to your work? I estimate that some 35-40% of my overall labour time is research and prep,…


Susan McMinn, Bendigo, Australia My PhD research was around the horse in war during the Palestine Campaigns of WW1. After researching stories about the Australian war horses concerning their plight during this campaign in the WW1 Light Horse Soldiers diaries, particularly that of Ion Idriess’, and various artworks including paintings by Australian War Artist George Lambert, I realised that I needed to go to Israel to look at and experience the Anzac trails and the landscape in which the horses travelled. Zoneone Arts brings Susan McMinn to you…

Susan McMinn

Explain how you managed to link your PhD to a visit to Israel? My PhD research was around the horse in war during the Palestine Campaigns of WW1.…


Stephanie Ho

Can you discuss your style and the style of Lowry?  People often said my works reminded them of L. S. Lowry, an important English painter in the mid…


Rebecca Campbell

Discuss why you enjoy working in a studio with other people? As an artist life can be very solitary, early on I realised that I was going slightly…


James Hart Dyke

The more British Artists I interview the more often HRH The Prince of Wales name keeps coming up.  Can you discuss the opportunities of this…


Karen Beauchamp

You original training was as an architect, how has this influenced your current artistic work? My architectural training is something that I am…


Nick Hollo

You are not only interested in location but the vegetation and land surface, expand on this and your work North Head Triassic Formation?North Head…


Emily Jones

You refer to your art as ‘Contemporary Representational’, can you expand on this? Yes, I use this term as my work is a synthesis of traditional…


Melissa Selby Brown

Discuss your series, ‘Outback’, taking us through the process from the road trip to the completed paintings. The prosaic fact of our daughter getting…


Steve Graham

Discuss how lemons have been so good to you?Lemon Coke, 30 x 30cm One of my first paintings to sell many years ago was a simple bowl of lemons on a…


Gail Dell

Your work is often described as ‘playful’ what are your own thoughts on this in relationship to your work? I find that life in the studio requires a…


Robert Kelsey DA

 Can you expand on your involvement with the Paisley Art Institute? I have been involved with Paisley Art Institute for over 40 years. The Institute…


John Mutsaers

Can you discuss your series, ‘The Infinite Birdcage’? As this series is somewhat organic it makes it hard to suggest the number of works I will…


Patrick Taylor

Comment on where you live and how it gives you your artistic inspiration? I have spent the better part of my childhood in the Southern United States.…


Mark Noble

John Constable understood Turners vision as golden visions, glorious and beautiful.  Can you discuss your own feeling related to the visions around…


Chris Langlois

 You have had work in the travelling exhibition, ‘Points of Time’.  Discuss some of the issues that you had to contend with due to the travel the…


Nicole Aquillano

What lead you to leave your former career and take up a full time career in ceramics? I realized that life was too short to not love what I do…


James Mackenzie

On completing your degree, you taught, when did you decide to take on painting full time? While teaching Art and Design in secondary education for 8…


Lorenzo Chinnici

Can you explain about the chance meeting of your son with David Kent’s son in Brick Lane, London and where and how this lead to ‘Synergy of Sons’?…


Bridget Davies

You have been involved in fashion discuss this in relation to your series ‘What to Wear when Walking the Dog’. My collection ‘What to Wear When…


Lucy Vader

How do you fit all that you do in, building design, painting and sculpture?  Or is the only slow time when you have to rest your leg after breaking…


Shirley Cresswell

Discuss ‘Dinghies’ and why they inspire your art so much? I have spent my life from an early age going to the beach.... Algies Bay north of…


Susan Laughton

Line is an important part of your work discuss? Drawing has always been an important form of expression to me, whether artistically, technically or…


Richard Klekociuk

You make the comment that your work is all about “trying to say a lot with very little” Can you expand on this? I have been involved in producing…


Michael Donnelly

What art qualifications do you have?  How did you decide to become an artist? I have a degree in Art Education from what was the Alexander Mackie or…